Box Score
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Sarah Jones and
Brytni Willis both recorded double-doubles, but it wasn't quite enough to get past Pitt-Johnstown as the Mountain Cats defeated the Concord University volleyball team Friday night, 3-1. The loss snaps Concord's three-match winning streak.
Concord (6-11, 1-2 WVIAC) lost the first set, 26-24, before coming back to win the second set, 25-23. However, Pitt-Johnstown (7-4, 1-3 WVIAC) was able to regroup and defend its home court with 25-15 and 25-19 victories in the third and fourth sets. Concord has lost just one match this season in three sets.
Jones had a team-best 11 kills to go with a career-high 17 digs. She concluded the match with a .370 hitting percentage. Willis added 10 kills and 10 digs for her third double-double of the season.
Setters
Nikki McMillan and
Amanda Walker registered 23 and 12 assists, respectively.
Lindsey Smith had 22 digs, her third 20-dig match of the season. Jones,
Jasmin Sutherland,
Kylie Perdue and
Danielle Compton had two blocks apiece.
As the two-point margin would indicate, the opening set was a tight contest that saw neither team able to open up a lead larger than five points throughout the set. With the set tied at 23-23, Pitt-Johnstown benefited from two CU attack errors and a kill of their own en route to the 26-24 win.
Concord and Pitt-Johnstown battled to a 15-15 tie in the second set before the Mountain Lions rattled off an 8-5 run to go up 23-20. CU got its 24th and 25th points of the set off of two Pitt-Johnstown errors for the 25-23 win. Jones had four kills in the second set.
UPJ took the third set thanks in part to a 7-0 spurt that opened up a commanding lead that Concord could never return from. A 5-0 run early in the fourth set also proved to be the undoing of Concord as Pitt-Johnstown grabbed a 5-1 lead and eventually finished off Concord 25-19 to clinch the set and the match.
Concord is set to play the second leg of its weekend road trip 11:00 a.m. Saturday at Shepherd.
